Interested in an iPad Mini, but holding out for the next-gen model? If part of your reason for waiting was anticipation of a high-rez “retina” display, you’re going to be more than a little disappointed.

Developer Hamza Sood seems to have found a folder titled “BiometricKitUI” within the latest iOS 7 beta. According to the description, users will be able to make use of a fingerprint tech feature by touching the sensor on the home button.

Before you say that having touch controls on the bezel has already been done before with devices like the Palm Pre and the BlackBerry PlayBook, the patent that Apple has just been granted is actually a little different.

Over in San Jose, Apple is in the middle of suing Samsung (again) over patent infringements with a series of Galaxy device and they wanted to add the Galaxy S4 to that list. However, Judge Paul S. Grewal has denied that addition